Understand what the security scan checks

You can read a skill's scan result and know what the tiers on verified-skill.com mean.

Registry01:18Recorded 3 May 2026

Steps

  1. Every submitted skill gets a tier 1 scan: 58 deterministic pattern checks (scanner source, 21 Oct 2026). A score of 70 or more passes.
  2. Tier 2 is a model review. It reads the skill and checks whether its intent and scope match its description.
  3. Open any skill page and choose Security to read its result, or scan a file yourself with npx vskill@latest scan path/to/SKILL.md.
  4. The trust page explains each tier and lists the skills that were blocked.
Transcript

Every skill on verified-skill dot com goes through a four-stage security scan. Patterns. AI. Dependencies. Provenance. Here's what each stage actually does.

An AI skill is code your agent will execute on your behalf. One bad prompt, one malicious dependency — the blast radius is your whole machine. So we don't ship a skill until four independent checks have signed off.

Stage one — pattern scan. Thirty-seven security patterns, regex-tight, run in milliseconds. Stage two — L L M analysis. The model reads the skill and flags intent that doesn't match the description. Stage three — dependency audit. Every npm package is scored against the public risk index. Stage four — provenance check. We verify the author owns the repo and the published bundle matches the source. Four passes. One verdict.

All four pass — the skill ships. Any one fails — it doesn't. No exceptions. No overrides. No 'we'll fix it in production'.

Browse verified skills at verified-skill dot com. Every card you see has cleared all four stages. Trust by construction.

The narration as voiced in the video.

Learning path

Write and ship a skill

Install skills with the CLI, scan them, then test yours in Studio.

  1. Find and install a verified skill

    01:13
  2. Understand what the security scan checks

    You are here
  3. Test a skill in Skill Studio

    01:06
  4. Publish a skill, public or private

    01:03

Plan the work that uses your skills: SpecWeave tutorials on spec-weave.com.

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